NASA Briefing on Curiosity's Analysis of Mars Rock

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News advisory: 2013-086b March 7, 2013

NASA Briefing on Curiosity's Analysis of Mars Rock

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http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-086&cid=release_2013-086

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA will hold a news conference at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT), Tuesday, March 12, to discuss the Curiosity rover's analysis of the first sample of rock powder ever collected on Mars.

The briefing, at NASA Headquarters in Washington, will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on the agency's website.

The participants will be:

-- Michael Meyer, lead scientist, Mars Exploration Program, NASA Headquarters, Washington
-- John Grotzinger, Curiosity project scientist, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.
-- David Blake, principal investigator for Curiosity's Chemistry and Mineralogy investigation, NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
-- Paul Mahaffy, principal investigator for Curiosity's Sample Analysis at Mars investigation, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.

During a two-year prime mission, researchers are using Curiosity's 10 science instruments to assess whether the Gale Crater area on Mars ever offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life.

For NASA TV streaming video, scheduling and downlink information, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv .The event will also be streamed live on Ustream at: http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl .

More information about Curiosity is online at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/msl
http://www.nasa.gov/msl and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/ .

Follow Curiosity on Facebook and Twitter at:
http://www.facebook.com/marscuriosity and http://www.twitter.com/marscuriosity .

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